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61) Warp
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life." Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow abundant, the bird weaves a garland for the girl to wear...
63) Harry's trees
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When you live at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is using it, maybe not), a bent bucket seat, and bashed tin-can handles. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpetty bump over the sand hills, past your fed-up mum, and right through your mud-for-walls home." -- Back cover....
65) Isle of you
Author
Language
English
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Description
Some days are harder to get through than others, but when you're sad, or lonely, or angry, it helps to remember these words: the Isle of You. Take a moment to shake off your worries, then set sail to a land where your dreams can come true. Soar on the back of an eagle, hunt for treasure, watch dancing polar bears on roller skates -- anything you can imagine is yours. Hopeful and dreamlike, Jaime Kim's paintings illuminate a way for young readers to...
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy flees 1940s Lithuania ahead of the Nazis in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish...
68) The wrong book
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this giggle-inducing story, the narrator is WRONG about everything, including that bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout Ding Dong! before putting out a fire, until the characters within the book set him straight.
69) Ahoy!
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Join a child captain and parent first mate as they embark on a wild high seas adventure-all without leaving the living room! This imaginative romp of a picture book is filled with glorious illustrations from a beloved Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling creator.
Raise the mainsail! Batten the hatches! It's time to set sail...on the couch! There's a storm coming, and a child is ready to captain the ship. "Make haste and climb aboard,"...
Author
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Hito de la literatura fantástica, La invención de Morel (1940) es una novela de amor y aventuras centrada en los extraños acontecimientos que descubre un fugitivo al llegar a una isla en apariencia desierta, donde de pronto se manifiestan habitantes espectrales. En un brillante ejercicio de imaginación razonada, lo inexplicable hallará su correlato lógico en un postulado científico, pero entretanto el narrador caerá presa de sus impulsos más...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman's escape into a world of obsessive imagination. Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the voice that reminds her of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three's Company. When Bonnie wins the lottery, a more grandiose vision--to completely shuck off her own troublesome...
72) Animalia
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Alfaguara republishes this anthology with the fabulous illustrations of Isol Misenta, which perfectly accompany these stories where the bestial emerges and the irrational comes into play. Aurora Bern�ardez, Julio Cort�azar's loving literary executor, gathered twenty-one stories by the writer to form a unique collection of the fauna that inhabits the Cortazarian universe. There, as is known, animals that we know coexist with others that only exist...
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